In this newly developed-workshop, Benjamin Schoendorff and Kathryn Palmer will show you how the simple and intuitive ACT matrix approach can be combined with attachment-based EFT strategies to empower your work with couples.

Are you trained in ACT and are interested in further developing your couples practice?

Would you like to discover how attachment-informed strategies can supercharge your ACT work with couples?

Are you an EFT therapist and are looking to broaden your interventions with mindfulness and acceptance strategies?

This workshop may be for you!

We are ACT clinicians who love working with couples. Over the years, we have found that using an approach informed by attachment theory when working with couples has made our ACT work with couples more effective. EFT is a well-validated attachment-based approach that focuses on attachment needs and connection and has been influential in our work.

We have come to integrate ACT and the matrix with attachment-informed strategies in a way that helps couples understand their distress through the lens of psychological flexibility and recognize their negative cycles and stuck loops as their enemy. Using a combination of mindfulness and acceptance-based strategies along with focusing our work around deeper emotional vulnerabilities and attachment needs, we have developed an ACT approach that helps couples connect with their relationship values, reconnect with each other even in the presence of discomfort, and become quickly able to act like the partners they want to be, no matter what.

This workshop will be based on therapy processes rather than a rigid protocol. We will explore how training psychological flexibility from the perspective of attachment can empower and bring to life your work with couples.

By the end of this workshop, you will learn:

An overview of the ACT model of psychological flexibility

An understanding of the similarities and differences between an ACT approach for couples and other attachment-based models for couples therapy (EFT)

Case conceptualization for couples (framework for integrating a model of psychological flexibility with attachment theory)

Strategies for problem-solving “stuck situations” with couples using process-based interventions

You will also walk away with practical tools, specially designed worksheets, and richly illustrated clinical vignettes that can enrich your practice.

Benjamin Schoendorff, MA, MSc, licensed psychologist is cofounder of Montreal’s Contextual Psychology Institute, Canada’s premier ACT training centre. An ACT pioneer in the French-speaking world, Benji is one of the most sought-after ACT trainers internationally. He has facilitated over 250 workshops the world over. He is renowned for his uncanny ability to make clear complex concepts, his passion for passing on directly applicable intervention skills and his deeply human humor. He has authored and co-authored numerous books and articles about ACT and third wave therapies, the most recent of which is The Essential Guide to the ACT Matrix. He loves to travel with his family and lives near Montreal with his wife and young son.

Kathryn Palmer MA. is a licensed psychologist in Ontario

Register four weeks before the event to get the early bird discount.

Early-Bird (plus tax): $400

Early-bird student (with proof of status): $200 (plus tax)

Regular (plus tax): $425

Student (with proof of status): $250

Cancelation policy:

If we cancel the workshop, you will receive 100% of your money back

If you cancel more than (2) weeks before the workshop, we’ll retain an administrative fee of $50.00.

If you cancel less than 14 days before the workshop, you’ll receive a 50% refund.

In this exceptional two-day intermediate to advanced workshop, Steven C. Hayes, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy founder will demonstrate how working from and with ACT process can supercharge your evidence-based-practice and help your clients to rich and meaningful lives.

Buy together with the ACT introduction workshop April 30th, and get a $100 discount on the total price of both workshops. Details as you register.

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